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  Koh Nang Yuan Island Resort
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  Yuan Dynasty Summary
The Yuan dynasty in China was directly ruled by a branch of Genghis Khan's descendants who were based in the Yuan capital city of Daidu (modern Beijing).
In 1279, Guangzhou was conquered by the Yuan army, which marks the end of the Southern Song and the onset of China under the Yuan.
However, the corruption in the Yuan Dynasty began during the reign of Chengzong.
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 Yuan dynasty
The Yuan Dynasty (Mongolian: Dai Ön Yeke Mongghul Ulus; Chinese: 元朝 or 大元帝國) lasting officially from 1271 to 1368, also called the Mongol Dynasty, was the name given to the significant ruling family of Borjigin in Asia.
He defeated the Jin forces, devastated northern China, captured numerous cities, and in 1215 besieged, captured, and sacked the Jin capital of Yanjing (later known as Beijing).
The fourth Yuan emperor, Emperor Renzong of Yuan China was the last which may be seen as "successful": he stood out among the Mongol rulers of China as an adopter of the culture of China, to the discontent of the Mongol elite.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/y/yu/yuan_dynasty.html   (3132 words)

  
 Yuan Drama
Yuan plays were generally composed of four acts and a short scene called a "wedge" (hsieh tzu).
According to sources such as Yuan scripts, period images, and post-Yuan references to the Mongol theatre, the costuming used in Yuan drama was both extensive and colourful.
In any case, the characters of the Yuan drama could often be identified by their costumes and make-up; theatrical dress was commonly used to indicate role and social status.
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 Yuan Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Yuan Dynasty (Mongolian: Dai Ön Yeke Mongghul Ulus; Chinese: 元朝 or 大元帝國) lasting officially from 1271 to 1368, also called the Mongol Dynasty, was the name given to the significant ruling family of Borjigin in Asia.
He was the son of Yesügei, the tribal chief of the Kiyad — a tribe in a fractured Mongolia.
As a result, Hong Taiji established the Qing Dynasty as the successor of the Yuan Dynasty in 1636.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuan_Dynasty   (3204 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Northern Wei's adoption of Chinese government and encouragement of intermarriage with the Han majority intensified court intrigues and caused internal rebellions, resulting in the extermination of numerous clans.
Northern Wei's use of eunuchs to consolidate autocratic rule was as much a sign of sinicization as the strengthening of eunuch power and the hastening of the end of the dynasty.
"Yuandai huanhuo kao" [On the eunuch menace in the Yuan dynasty].
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 Yuan An   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Then in 70, Yuan An received his first major assignment as Grand Administrator of Chu commandery, to investigate the Liu Ying, the King of Chu, who was accused of heresy and treason.
Yuan An died in 92 and a few months later the Dou clan fell in coup d'etat staged by Emperor He.
Yuan was posthumously honoured by the Emperor and his eldest son Yuan Shang (袁賞) was given a post at the capital.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yuan-An.htm   (888 words)

  
 Yuan Shao (Benchu) - Sanguozhi Biography - translated by Battleroyale
Yuan Shao was reluctant and gave the excuse that he needed to discuss the issue with his father, who was holding the highest appointment (Tai Fu) in the Han Court.
Yuan Shao sent Gao Gan and some other generals to convince Han Fu that the only way for him to save his skin was to let Yuan Shao’s army occupy Yi Zhou so as to help him in confronting Gong Sun Zan’s army.
Yuan Shao was overjoyed on hearing Ju Shou’s plan and memorialized Ju Shou to be the Inspector of the Army (Jian Jun), and Fen Wu Jiang Jun (The Courageous General).
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 Encyclopedia: Yuan Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Emperor Wuzong of Yuan China was the 3rd leader of the Yuan Dynasty to rule as Emperor of China and did so between 1308 and 1311.
Emperor Renzong of Yuan China was the 4th leader of the Yuan Dynasty to rule as Emperor of China and did so between 1311 and 1320.
Gegeen Khan (Classical Mongolian: Gegegen qaɤan; Khalkha Mongolian: Гэгээн хаан gegeen haan), born Shidibala (from Sanskrit Siddhipāla) and served as Emperor Yingzong of Yuan China, was the ninth grand-khan of the Mongol Empire (Dai-ön Ulus/Yuan Dynasty).
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 Chinese History -Yuan Dynasty 元 event history (www.chinaknowledge.de)
After the death of Khubilai Khan the imperial court of Yuan was dominated by faction struggles among the Mongol nobility that sought to control the emperors.
Throughout the history of Yuan Dynasty there was always a pending question that was never really decided: if the Mongols wanted to govern a steppe empire with according simple governmental structures of if they wanted to rule a civilized nation with a highly complex system of bureaucracy, long administrative tradition and important state rituals.
The Northern Yuan period (Beiyuan 北元) is the half century between the escape of the Mongols from China after 1368 and their identification with the Tatars ("Dada 韃靼").
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 A Chronology of World Political History (1201 - 1400 C.E.)
Dolcino and Margaret, leaders of the heretical Apostle Brethren in northern Italy, instigated a peasant uprising in Piedmont.
Toghan Temur, the Yuan Emperor, retreated to Mongolia.
During his rule he invaded Central Asia, West Asia and northern India and established a hegemonic empire (traditionally this year was assumed to be the founding year of the Timurid Regime).
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 mongol empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He quickly came into conflict with the Jin empire of the Jurchen and the Western Xia in Northern China, and, under the provocation of the Khwarezmid Empire, moved into Central Asia as well, devastating Transoxiana and eastern Persia, and raiding into southern Russia and the Caucasus.
Inter-family rivalry (compounded by the complicated politics of succession, which twice paralyzed military operations as far off as Hungary and the borders of Egypt, crippling their chances of success) and the tendencies of some of the khans to drink themselves to death fairly young (causing the aforementioned succession crises) hastened the disintegration of the empire.
Some of these descendant empires include the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty in China, and the Golden Horde that controlled Central Asia and Russia.
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 ancient and medieval coins of China - reference guide)
As an official of Northern Zhou he had married the last emperor's daughter to become uncle to the heir, whom he forced to abdicate in his favor.
At the establishment of Sui, the fiduciary coins of Northern Zhou and Ch'en were in use and the economy is recorded as having been in a poor state.
Li Yuan, adopting the title T'ang Kao Tsu, ruled from AD 618-626 then abdicated in favor of his son Li Shih-min who adopted the title T'ai Tsung and ruled from AD 627 to 649.
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 Yuan Shikai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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 China and Korea, 300 to 500 CE
Entire clans of northern Chinese migrated south, as did sixty or seventy percent of northern China's gentry.
The dominant Xiongnu chieftain in northern China, Liu Cong, died, and his family was overthrown by one of his former lieutenants, Shi Liu Shi - who was illiterate but enjoyed having Chinese classics explained to him.
Across the Silk Road, the Buddhists of northern China remained connected to Central Asia and India, and Buddhism was a conduit for Hellenistic culture from Central Asia.
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 Ancient China: The Mongolian Empire: The Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368
The single most striking aspect of the Yuan is not only the survival of Chinese culture under a vastly foreign rule, but its singular vitality and growth.
The Yuan period, in fact, is one of vital cultural transmission between China and the rest of the world.
The Yuan and the Chinese had no cultural direction, no syncretic goal that they were aiming at, so the cultural interaction never really got beyond the formal practice of simple disagreement and argument.
www.wsu.edu /~dee/CHEMPIRE/YUAN.HTM   (1668 words)

  
 Essential World Architecture Images- Search by style
The Yuan Dynasty (pinyin: Yuáncháo; Mongolian: Dai Ön Yeke Mongghul Ulus), lasting officially from 1271 to 1368, followed the Song Dynasty and preceded the Ming Dynasty in the historiography of China.
He was the son of Yesügei, the tribal chief of the Kiyad — a tribe in fragmented Mongolia under nominal control of the Jin Dynasty at the time.
The last of the Yuan Dynasty were marked by successions of struggle, famine, and bitterness by the populace.
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 The Three Kingdoms -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Yuan Shao proposed to have all eunuchs purged; Heh Jin consulted with Empress Hehou; Dowager Empress He-hou did not approve for fearing turmoils; Heh Jin asked Yuan Shao whether it was OK to get rid of the top eunuchs; Yuan Shao insisted that all eunuchs should be purged.
Yuan Shao countered it by stating that the young emperor had no fault and the change of emperor should be decided by the ministers.
Yuan Shao retained Yan Rou as the 'Wuhuan Colonel'.
www.uglychinese.org /threestates.htm   (8271 words)

  
 Yuan Dynasty - Ancient China
The Yuan Dynasty is more popularly known as the Mongol Dynasty or the Mongolian Empire.
Of the major Chinese dynasties, the Yuan Dynasty was the shortest-lived.
The Yuan's rule became punctuated with uprisings in the North as the Mongols believed that the rulers have become too assimilated with the Chinese.
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 Yuan China
Established in 1272, the Yuan dynasty was comprised of the family of Kubilai Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson.
Indeed, the configuration of the Yuan dynasty is thought to have followed a strategy developed by a Chinese advisor to Kubilai Khan to gain the support of the Chinese intelligentsia and provide legitimacy.
Under Temur Oljeitu's rule, the territories of the Yuan dynasty were stable, and many have considered it the golden age of the Yuan.
www.accd.edu /sac/history/keller/Mongols/states1.html   (1274 words)

  
 Mongols and Yuan China by Sanderson Beck
The Toba people, who founded the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534), were mostly Mongolian, as were the Khitans, who were also in north China and founded the Liao dynasty (947-1125).
The Song Chinese, attempting to regain northern territory, allied themselves with the Mongols for a siege of Kaifeng in 1232; the Qin emperor was driven out and committed suicide two years later.
In 1354 the Yuan court sent Toghto to attack Zhang's rebels and were defeating them until an imperial edict sent Toghto into exile, causing the imperial army to disperse as many became bandits.
www.san.beck.org /3-6-Mongols.html   (11119 words)

  
 Ancient China: The Mongolian Empire: The Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368
The single most striking aspect of the Yuan is not only the survival of Chinese culture under a vastly foreign rule, but its singular vitality and growth.
The Yuan period, in fact, is one of vital cultural transmission between China and the rest of the world.
The Yuan and the Chinese had no cultural direction, no syncretic goal that they were aiming at, so the cultural interaction never really got beyond the formal practice of simple disagreement and argument.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CHEMPIRE/YUAN.HTM   (1668 words)

  
 Hung Kuen Net - Online Hung Gar Kung Fu Resources
The Shaolin Yuan is in the northeastern corner of Fuqing county, at the intersection of three counties: Fuqing, Putian, and Yong Tai.
De Cheng was a Shaolin Yuan monk and this is confirmed by a well-known Southern Song writer Liu Ke Zhuang (1187?1296).
These Shaolin Yuan monks all lived around the end of the twelfth century and into the end of the thirteenth, which is to say from the Southern Song dynasty Guang Chong years to the end of the Southern Song.
www.hungkuen.net /article-shaolinriddle2.htm   (1552 words)

  
 Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: A Buddha Kingdom in the Golden Triangle: Buddhist Revivalism and the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
However, Khruba Siwichai's religious activities were confined to northern Thailand, whereas Khruba Bunchum's peregrinations throughout northern Thailand, northern Laos, Sipsongpanna (in China) and northeast Burma mark out a sacred Buddhist space, focused on the heart of the notorious Golden Triangle.
Yuan Buddhists share a common script (called tham) and religious literature (written in that script), an accommodative attitude towards popular animistic religiosity as well as a common belief in ton bun.
Both Khruba Siwichai and Khruba Khao Pi were ardent in their efforts to protect Yuan Buddhism against the process of rationalisation and standardisation of Buddhist practices inspired by the Buddhist reformism of Siamese monarchs.
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 chen/Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American. Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As Yuan was contemplating his restoration, the paper theorized on the essence of republicanism and the meaning of patriotism.
Yuan's restoration of the monarchical system was seen as a retrogressive act, instigated by "a conservative party" in China.
Yuan's action thus betrayed all Chinese people, so rebellion against such a national traitor was "perfectly justified." The paper referred to the National Protection Army in China as "the Republican Army," for its purpose was to save the Chinese republic.
www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/chen/ch4.html   (14087 words)

  
 16 Nations -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
The pronunciation for the character Di(1) is different from another character for the ancient group of northern barbarians that came to be known as the ancestors of the Huns, Di(2).
Liu Yuan spent most of his time in Chinese court and was a very ambitious man suspected by one Chinese minister as well as protected by another minister.
Liu Yuan returned to the Huns in AD 308, and helped Jinn defeat the Xianbei and the Jinn rebel Wang Jun. Thereafter, Liu Yuan returned to Jinn court and was appointed Dadudu (i.e., "grand marshal") of the five Hunnic Tribal Groups.
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 The Three Kingdoms -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Yuan Shao proposed to have all eunuchs purged; Heh Jin consulted with Empress Hehou; Dowager Empress He-hou did not approve for fearing turmoils; Heh Jin asked Yuan Shao whether it was OK to get rid of the top eunuchs; Yuan Shao insisted that all eunuchs should be purged.
Yuan Shao countered it by stating that the young emperor had no fault and the change of emperor should be decided by the ministers.
Yuan Shao pulled out his blade and said to Dong Zhuo, "Are you sure that there is no other ferocious fighter other than Dong Zhuo in this world?" Yuan Shao then left for his office, hanged his seal on the front door, and fled to Ji-zhou prefecture.
www.republicanchina.org /threestates.htm   (8430 words)

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